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What is the service?

The Bank of Italy's collections are managed by two libraries: the Paolo Baffi Library, which specializes in banking, finance and economics, and the legal library, which specializes in banking and financial law. The total collection amounts to 150,000 volumes, 8,500 periodical publications on paper, and 1,300 electronic resources.

You can:

• consult the catalogue and collections in the reading rooms;
• make photocopies, within the limits of copyright law;
• consult via Internet the Library catalogue and the catalogue of on-line resources;
• get remote bibliographical and documentary information services.

Who can use the library?

People with an interest in banking and financial studies: university professors, researchers, economists, legal scholars, scholars or researchers at other institutions, and university students.

How?

For access to the reading rooms, researchers must:

• apply by telephone, Monday to Friday, 10:00-12:00 and 14:30-16:30;
• present a valid ID document at the porter's lodge;
• fill out the admission form in the reading room:
• furnish, in the case of students, a letter of presentation from a university professor or an employee of the Bank of Italy; the letter is valid for one year.

PAOLO BAFFI READING ROOM

Address: Via Nazionale 91 - 00184 Rome

Hours
Monday-Friday, 8:30-16:00. Closed national holidays, the last three working days of May, 29 June, 14 August, 24 and 31 December.

Contacts
Tel.: + 39.06.47922404, for information and booking
e-mail: bibliotecabaffi@bancaditalia.it
Fax: +39.06.47922059

LAW READING ROOM

Address: Via Nazionale 91 - 00184 Rome

Hours
Monday-Friday, 9:00-12:30 and 14:00-16:00. Closed national holidays, the last three working days of May, 29 June, 14 August, 24 and 31 December.

Contacts
Tel.: + 39.06.47925386, for information and booking
e-mail: bibliotecagiuridica@bancaditalia.it
Fax: +39.06.47922397

Consultation, loans, photocopies
For consultation, bibliographical information and photocopies, see the Library dedicated section in the menu at the right.